Entrecard is a free online service that will help in generating free traffic to your website.  I found this site while browsing another blog an I’m glad I did.  In the 3 days I’ve had the service, it has consistently generated traffic to my site on a daily basis.  In case you haven’t tried it out I suggest you do.  It’s an excellent way for a new or established blog to get new traffic.
The first thing to do is go to their website and sign up (http://www.entrecard.com).  Then your account will be activated instantly you don’t have to validate through email etc…
You will need to create your “entrecard” which is a small graphic 125×125 pixels.
They do have default entrecards but I suggest you create your own as this is your “face” on the internet.  Sort of like a internet business card.

The website works like this, you drop your card on another blog on the network and you get one credit.  What I mean by drop your card is that you will need to go to their actual blog, find the entrecard box and click on drop  See screenshot here:

Then after you drop, your card will be shown on that blog owner’s, entrecard inbox.  Then if they choose (often times they do) they can click on your card, visit your site and drop their own card.  If they do this you will receive a credit as well.

So for each drop, the dropper and the receiver both get 1 credit.  The difference is that the receiver’s credit is worth a little bit more because this is how entrecard.com calculates how much it will cost for advertisers to advertise on your site.

Now that you have earned credits from dropping and receiving drops you can now use these credits to advertise your blog on other sites.  You do this by going to “campaign” and find the blogs you want to advertise in.  The price to advertise is based on a formula in which they take the average of “receiver” drops that blog receives in the last 5 days and multiplies by 2.

A word of caution though, just because a blog is one of the top and most expensive, it does not mean it’s the “best” blog to advertise in.  Some blogs are just drop crazy and their price escalates because of this.  A good way to tell if a blog is one of these is to go to that blog’s campaign and check the “drop rank”  and if it has these ranks:

Takes dropping Very Very Seriously
Deeply committed - Deadly serious. A drop master
Or something that says “addiction”

You should use caution before advertising on these.

Overall entrecard is a great service and it’s free so go check it out.

So I was surfing the web a couple of days ago and found an interesting website, Blogrush.com. The website’s main purpose is to drive traffic to your blog by displaying a widget on your site that shows other blogs. In return, you get credits for each time the widget is displayed on your site. W ith each credit, your blog is displayed on other blogs throughout its network. Seems interesting enough so I joined, as you’ve probably noticed from the little blogrush widget on my sidebar.
I’ve been using the site for 2 days and so far my blog have been syndicated 300 times throughout the network. I was a bit surprised by that since my blog is just starting and I don’t think I get more than 100 uniques a day. But that is a good surprise. The reason for this is the fact that the site gives you bonus credits for traffic generated on your site. For example, in the 2 days this blog has only generated 74 unique visitors thus giving me 74 credits. But the site added an additioanl 328 bonus credits, which is a good thing.

In addition, the 300 times my blog has been shown, I was able to generate 3 clicks. That’s 3 more visitors my site would not have gotten if I didn’t join the site. I know it doesn’t sound like much to the “big” blogs out there.. But for me it’s something… the more visitors the betterSo if you haven’t checked it out yet.. give it a try.. you may actually like it.. Oh yeah if you decide to join..

Give me a little love by clicking on my referral link ..

if you don’t mind..

Last.FM has been around for awhile and is considered the main player in the evolution of the online music social revolution. I am a late bloomer as far as being a user as I only registered back in December of 2007. But I’ve been a loyal user since my discovery. Last.FM has a ton of features and once you have registered you will be greeted with a myriad of choices on what to do to get started with the revolution. The main feature that draws me to the site is “Scrobbling”. Basically Scrobbling is Last.FM’s way of logging the music you play within your Media Player (iTUNES, WinAmp, Media Player etc..) and create charts based on what you’ve listened to. But as I just mentioned they have alot of things going on for the site.

The following are some of the features I use and have found valuable are:

• Last.FM client - This is an external program that will run in the background and will scrobble the songs you play. The client also has a plug-in that will scrobble items you play on your iPOD. This is the feature that I really benefit from, since I listen to most of my songs away from the PC.
• Charts - After scrobbling your music, last.FM creates charts that you can modify and browse through. I find this feature interesting, I can go back a certain week/month and see which artists, songs I listened to during that time period.
• Neighbors - Last.FM will generate 50 neighbors (other users) each week for you based on the musical taste that you have scrobbled.
• Friends - This is after all a social network. Making music buddies is a breeze, you can request a friend request to a random user, neighbor or anybody that you find interesting. You may also get friend requests from people.
• Widgets - An awesome feature that Last.FM offers, you can have your recently listened tracks show up on your facebook, myspace, blog etc…
• Journal - You can also create a musical journal from within the website.
• Groups - You can join or create your own.

There are a ton of other things that the website offers and all this is free and and really addicting. I’m still in the process of fully discovering the site. So far in 4 months of listening, I have listened to a total of 4882 tracks, my top Artist is Jack Johnson who I’ve listened to 349 times.

If you haven’t started yet, I’d say go ahead and start scrobbling. It’s fun and pretty much addicting.